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Celebrate the Fourth
07/03/2008
From the Charles Cushman Collection
An online exhibition features American history documents housed at the Lilly Library. As the university's library for rare books and manuscripts, the Lilly Library contains one of 21 remaining copies of the first printing of the Declaration of Independence, as well as the original letter from George Washington accepting the presidency of the United States.
IU Bloomington has served as a Federal Depository Library since 1881, receiving publications from the U.S. government to make them broadly available to the nation's citizens.
Any Indiana citizen may check out materials from the university's libraries. Rare historic documents do not circulate, but citizens may request and view them in the library.
For more information about researching government information, visit Government Information, Microforms & Statistical Services on the Web.
